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Archimedes was born c. 287 BC in the seaport city of Syracuse, Sicily, at that time a self-governing colony in Magna Graecia, located along the coast of Southern Italy. The date of birth is based on a statement by the Byzantine Greek historian John Tzetzes that Archimedes lived for 75 years.
Legend has it that while bathing Archimedes discovered the principle that a body immersed in water is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the water displaced, and in his elation he ran out naked into the street shouting âEureka!â (âI have found itâ).